Ontario’s basic income pilot project is ‘failing,’ Ford government says

Ontario's basic income pilot project is 'failing,' Ford government says

In this file photo, Lisa Macleod, Ontario’s Children, Community and Social Services Minister, talks with the media after Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Thursday, August 2, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young TORONTO — A basic income pilot project aimed at reducing poverty in Ontario is failing and many of the participants have dropped out, the province’s Progressive Conservative government said Wednesday as it defended its controversial decision to wind down the program.

Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said pilot participants would receive their cheques past August, and the program’s end date would be announced later this month.

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